Quiver with wool lining

[Keith361]

I'm going the cheapo route with te quiver making.
I picked up a full length womans skirt yesterday at a second hand store to make a quiver out of. The problem I have with it is that it is pretty thin, so I figured I could double the material by folding it in half, skirt's not small.
 
Once I did that it still seemed a bit thin to meso, I went back to the same store and picked up an old military green wool shirt that I was planning on lining the inside with.

That gave me the heft and thickness I was looking for but now I'm questioning if I'm going to have pblems with removing the arrows when I'm ready to shoot, i.e. catching on the wool liner.

I like a lot of the quivers that I see on here, really like yours Manny, I'm not looking for anything fancy or flashy, just functional, and longer than most of the 17-21" ones, and I want to do it on the cheap.

Thanks,
Keith

[Dawn Patrol]

I have heard of...and extually seen pics of people making quivers out of a jacket sleeve or the pants leg from a pair of jeans.  Should work ok for field points...you could always stick some cut to length pieces of 1 inch pvc in there to give it more support.  I think Killdeer has a denim quiver made from a a sleeve or pants leg.

[Jerry Jeffer]

Yup, that quiver is on this post.
 http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=053345;p=2

[Keith361]

Ok, just saw a product review for Siegels. Am I seeing things right or am I just getting tired... 20 square feet of latigo 7 oz for just over $5.00! Somebody tell me that ain't right.
Dogone skirt was $10.00!

Keith

[Killdeer]

Chasing skirts is an expensive hobby.

Killdeer  :rolleyes:

[Killdeer]

OK, I just went there (Siegels    ) and that is prolly the price per square foot. They have cheaper leather there that you may like better, if you don't have any blown-out jeans you can use.

I would be curious to see a wool-lined skirt quiver, though.
Killdeer

[Keith361]

Killie, if I get this thing done right it may just be yours.
I think I might have a pair of blown out jeans, heck of a batch of beans I made that weekend!

Keith

[Ssamac]

If you want to beef up the quiver from a jeans leg, just double it up and put the inside pants legs back to back so that the outside denim is what you see on the outside and the inside of the quiver. Run a few rows of stitches up and down every 2 inches. If you use a different color it looks nice too. That will be a plenty heavy and tough material. I did that and hand stitched a dowel in the spine and whipped the openigs on the dowel for the shoulder strap to pass thru with leather twine. I also took an old piece of leather from a shoe or a sneaker and cut it to fit the bottom of the quiver. Just put a couple of dabs of contact cement on it and pushed it down tight to the bottom. Since the legs taper out, I made the whole thing long enough to cover the fletching and put a tie string around the opening. I stitched a piece of plastic around the top opening inside the fabric to give it some shape. I cut a 1 ince strip from a plastic bottle widthwise nice and round. I sticched above it and below it to hold it in place easy. Then you fold the top flap down along this plastic edge. If you ever need to close up the quiver, you can fold it up and tie it closed. Then I took the fly and some cloth around it with the zipper and all and made a lenghtwise pocket with that before I sticthed the thing all closed. You can get a lot from a old pair of jeans. I've done rifle socks, bow socks, quivers, all kinds of pouches, etc. Denim is the greatest stuff. Sam

[Leo L.]

Got any pictures to share Sam?

[madness522]

Second hand stores is a good place to score an old used leather jacket.  With a little work you can get 2 quivers (one from each sleeve) and use the main body to cut out the straps.

[BobW]

One of last year's TBM's had an article on making a quiver out of a jacket (leather).

[Ssamac]

I thought the leather jacket route too but never found one as cheap as an old pair of jeans. (free)
Anyway as soon as I get my digital camera back I'll take a pic for you.
sam